Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-01


4 relief for the treasury by that time.
/ When the Kirkwood accommodation train,
/ east bound, on the Missouri Pacific road,
| reached Cheltenham, one Of the western su-
/ burb5 OF st, Louis, recently, seven bars or
l silver we're put into the Pacific express com
paDy's car, attached to the trains but when
| the express mat or was taken from the car
/ some time after the train arrived IN st.
/ Louis, only i've bars could be found, and
/ the missing silver has not yet turned up.
/ There is no dO-St but that the car was rob
/ bed while it was st 4nding IN the union depot
| yards, but there Is no clue as yet to the rob
l berry. The silver was shipped by the st.
! LJuia Smelling and Refining company, and
was consigned to the Third National bank
| of Philadelphia. The bars we ghed about
/ seventy pounds each, and were valued at
] $1,000.
Justice James rendered a decision in the
| equity court IN the suit OF j. harris Rogers
/ against the attorney general and to dissolve
/ the partnership known as the pan-electric
/ telephone company. The attorney general,
/ in his answer TO the bill of complaint, de-
MED all the allegations contained therein,
| and was DESTROYS to have the case tried on
/ its merits; but the other defendants, Senator
/ Harris, Commission Atkins, Commissioners
Johnston and Casey Young filed demurrer,
and or that tho case was argued. Justice
James sustained the demurrer and dismissed
the bill without going into the merits of the
! case The attorney general Is said 80 be dis
appointed at the result, as he hoped to have
the question settled on its merit.
| Obey Owens. receiving teller OF the Third
/ National bank OF st. Louis, Mo-, who in
1882 embezzled about 500 600 of the funds
of that bank, and who has been serving a
| sentence in the Chester, ILL.,, penitentiary
/ for that crime, was pardOned by the presi-
dent Owens has served about enc half of
/ the term of hVe years to which he was SEN
tened. The president pardOned him on
/ account of the statement in several petitions
/ sent from ST. Louis and Louisville. In
/ granting the pardon he said he thought the
/ prisoner had already suffered a sufficient
/ penalty.
AWashington special to the Herald says
that Blaine will go to Europe next autumn.
I He viii be the guest of distinguished men
/ in Great Britain and On the continent. He
| will spend major portion of his time in
/ France, Germany and Ireland. 1t is ex-
| pected by his friends that his presence in
Ireland will create a great Juror. The effect
/ of this upon the Irish in America, It Is
/ III ought, will be TO add greatly to Blaine's
] popularity with them. The present pro-
I gramme Is for him to return to the United
States about sixty days prior the meeting Of
the next republican convention.
| Commissioner Atkins, of the Indian of
| fee, has decided to allow the Indian supply
| house 10 remain in New York, bat will here
after, at each annual spring letting, receive
and open bids in st. Louis for furnishing
! beef, -four, bacon and other items Of sub
stance supplied TO the Indians Bids for
furnishing transportation TO the several
| agencies Of supplies purchased in New York.
as well as IN St. Louis Will be received IN st.
Louis.
The house of representatives refused to
suspend the rules and pass the bill increas
ing the duties on Sumatra tobacco. Bills
were introduced to appropriate $4,000 for
/ the erection of a monument to negro sol
diers and sailors who lost their lives in the
rebellion, to forbid the sale of liquors with
in the limits of any Soldiers home and to
punish the passing of confederate money.
l The journals Rich Hill, Missouri, special
says: Harry Williamson, a son OF Alder man
williamson, was fatally shot to-day BY
Herman Dick. Young Dick, while demon
strating how he would meet burglar, pick
ed up a revolver and snapped 1t at William
son. The weapon was discharged and the
ball went through his victims forehead.
The farm house of Caleb Russell, near
SeybrOok, Ohio, caught IRE. When the
neighbOrs arrived Russell, who was 80 years
old, and his wife, aged Gu. had escaped from
the house, but they we're so much overcome
by the heat and smoke that they died short
| ly afterward- A demented son who slept up
stairs was burned to death.
W. c. Plunkett Sons large four story
brick warp mills, in Adams, Massachusetts,,
burned. Loss $IhO, 900; covered by insurance.
The fire was caused by an explosion of a
Temp carried by machin1st, Rhe persisted
in the flames. One hundred persons are
thrown out of work. The mill will be re-
built at once.
AdVices to the Associated press from the
Atlantic coast and southern states indicate
tn At the amenities Of Christmas day were
more generally indulged in than usual. The
poor were remembered with uncommon
generosity, and the day passed with unusual
quiet, with a minimum Of braWling and
drinking.
The large mills of the Dean-Woolen com
pany, Newark, Del, were entirely consumed
by fire, causing loss OF about S200, 600, and
throwing 225 hands out of employment. The
jnsuran Q amounts to about S165 GOO. Moth
ing bat bare walls are standing, and it Is
doubtful if they will be soon rebuilt.
Two cars Of a passenger train on the
Rocky Mountain division, near Winnipeg,
became detached and ran three miles down
a heavy grade, jumped the track anu were
[ smashed The express messenger, McN6llY,
and an unknown passenger, were killed,
Twenty passengers were badly shaken mp.
The naval board Of inspection, which sur
veyed the United States steamer ''Tennes-
see," has reported to the navy department
that the vessel cannot be repaired within the
statutory limit Of 20 per cent, and will prob
ably be used as receiving ship in place OF
/ the Minnesota"
At the rate of one mile per day the Mexi-
can International road is pushing southwark
L
at LaedO. Il is claimed that The distance
| from Chicago to the Mexican capital will
next summer be thereby lessened six hun
dred miles.
Great mortality Is reported among cattle
in the northwest and southwest portion Of
IVA, from disease the farmers fear is
pleuro-pneumOnia- The governor has in
stituted an investigation, and If il proves 70
be pleuro viii take radical measures to
stamp it out.
Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, learning
that during his absence one hundred midst
msnts had been found against keepers of
brothels and saloons, threatens to make the
! arlstOcracy of that city "a stencil in the nos
trlls OF the northwestern people.
Thepresident sent the following nomina-
tions % the senate. Preston h Leslie, of
Kentucky, governor Of Montana territory;
h. E Hayden, Of Minnesota, clerk Of the
district court for the district Of Alaska
Postmssters nominated for Kansas. n
Lands, Cswego; J. Q. 4. Sheldon, Manhat-
tan; j. p. Hail. Howard; W. p. Eddriok,
| Columbus; J. E. Ireland, lola; z. W. Lyon
Oherryvale.
Some unknown man in the waiting rsOm
at The railway station at Huntingburg, Ind,
stabbed John Hart, cOlored, in the throat.
seVering the Jugular vein and causing almost
instant death The murderer escaped.
John Jennings, cook, shot and killed
Anderson Martin, another cook, IN drunken
quarrel, in Louisville, Ky.
The district telephone company of Sar
Francisco conceded the demands Of tbs
striking messengers for 75 cents q day for
u hours The boysreturn 70 work.
The secretary Of the treasury has appoint
ed James ii. Walsh 70 be assistant inspeo-
tor Of hulls at New York Walsh IS a